Boston Chinatown immigration raid

The Boston Chinatown immigration raids refers to an incident on October 11, 1903, in Chinatown, Boston where immigration officials arrested 234 Chinese Americans for not being able to produce their papers in time for officials. While forty-five people were actually found to be in the country illegally, the raids occurred during a time of anti-Chinese sentiment. Many of those wrongly picked up by the police had their white wives and black friends help produce their papers, showing the multiracial aspects of the community.^[1][2][3]

References

1. Barkan, Elliott Robert (2013). Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1598842197. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
2. Coolidge, Mary Roberts (1909). Mary Coolidge. Holt. p. 323. ISBN 978-0781250177. Retrieved 18 November 2015. Boston Immigration Raid of 1903.
3. Lee, Erika (2007). At America's gates : Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 ([Nachdr.]. ed.). Chapel Hill, NC [u.a.]: University of North Carolina Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0807827758. Retrieved 18 November 2015.